With 118 Covid cases reported in Thursday’s health bulletin, the capital has witnessed over 100 cases of the virus for the third day in a row. Delhi has recorded 109 cases of infection every day on an average during the four days of this week, compared to only 70 cases in a day on an average last week and 51 cases a week before that. This indicates a clear upward trend in India COVID-19 Around 97 per cent people have cases in the city despite having antibodies against the Sars-CoV-2 virus that causes Covid-19.
Another death due to the infection was recorded on Thursday, taking the city’s total toll to 25,103 since the start of the pandemic. Three succumbed to the infection in the last seven days as compared to zero deaths in the last nine days.
The latest surge can be linked to omicron Different; The number of confirmed cases in Delhi on Friday stood at 67, just behind Maharashtra, which has reported 88 such cases so far. The heavily mutated Omicron version of the virus is believed to be at least three times more transmissible than delta version And the immunity acquired through vaccination has decreased significantly.
Along with the rise in the absolute number of cases in the capital, there has also been an increase in the positivity rate or the proportion of samples testing positive. The positivity rate, which mostly remained below 0.1% since mid-July, has now risen to 0.2% this week. The average positivity rate last week was 0.12%.
The first phase of COVID-19 restrictions by the Delhi government will kick in if the positivity rate crosses 0.5% as per the government’s graded response action plan. However, the government has already started working on strengthening its infrastructure for testing and treating COVID patients. Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal The government is working to conduct 3 lakh tests a day and build capacity to deal with 1 lakh cases each day, he said after a review meeting on Thursday.
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